Team growth mindset and team scientific creativity of college students: The role of team achievement goal orientation and leader behavioral feedback

The team scientific creativity of college students is important for building an innovative country. To explore the factors that influence team scientific creativity, the current study builds a theoretical model of team growth mindset and team scientific creativity and explores the relationship among team growth mindset, team achievement goal orientation, leader behavioral feedback, and team scientific creativity. A total of 601 college students majoring in science and engineering from 132 innovation teams in China completed the questionnaire. The results showed that team growth mindset was positively related to team scientific creativity. Team achievement goal orientation mediated the relationship between team growth mindset and team scientific creativity. In addition, leader behavioral feedback moderated the relationship between team growth mindset and team achievement goal orientation, as well as the relationship between team growth mindset and team scientific creativity. The results not only help provide an understanding of the relationship between team growth mindset and team scientific creativity but also have important implications for promoting the development of science and technology innovation teams among college students.